YouTube to Launch Music Subscription Service

Listening to music via YouTube is about to get easier. Billboard reports that YouTube is close to launching a subscription music service—similar to Spotify, but with videos, and "designed with mobile listening in mind." YouTube has yet to announce or confirm these plans.

According to Billboard, the service will be available for free with a "premium tier" for paid subscribers, the latter of which will offer full access to YouTube and Google's music catalog. (YouTube is owned by Google, which has its own music subscription service, All Access.) Paid subscribers will be able to listen ad-free, with the option of saving music to listen offline. The free version will offer "unlimited, on-demand" music, with ads.

Billboard believes that the paid version will cost around $10 per month and will probably include the option of streaming full albums, something you usually can't do on YouTube now.